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FEATURES
~ The Worldwide Sell
Executives at multinationals in search of funding for e-commerce often study
U.S. trends, extrapolate data and wait for the money to roll in
~ TIME Cover Story: The Cyber Marketplace
I know we're not normal," Jerry Yang says with a boyish grin, making a
halfhearted effort to straighten up his cubicle for his visitor
~ Going Portal in Europe
Over the last 100 days, a series of highly publicized alliances and takeovers
have turned the word "portal" into the ultimate Web business model.
~ IBM's David Liederbach Focuses On Making ECommerce Work With Back-End
Systems Internet commerce is one of the biggest markets in the IT industry
today, and IBM is one of the largest vendors
~ ECommerce's Real Celebrities: Valves, Pencils, Switches
Despite the high profile of companies like the online bookseller Amazon.com
Inc. and music store CDNow Inc., many of the real success stories of the new
age of Internet commerce lie outside the limelight.
~ As Big Merchants Branch Out, Other Sites See Value in Staying Narrow
Internet specialty retailers acknowledge that superstores such as Amazon.com
will sponge up some sales in new markets, but they do vouch for their own
strength in the verticals they dominate--for now.
~ Start-up Counts on Changing Tune of Music Business
When the online music industry assembles in New York this week for the Intel
Music Festival and Jupiter's Plug-In conference, all the talk will be about
consumer retail brands like N2K and CDNow selling CDs online
~ Role Reinforcement: Fearing disintermediation, RS Components builds
bleeding- edge ecommerce presence with personal touch.
~ A CyberStore-y: Education toys distributor Holt looks to turn more of its
site's browsers into buyers.
New Year's Eve 1997. The very first Web holiday season had just come and gone,
and The Holt Co., a Waltham, Mass., distributor of educational toys and home
and office furnishings, couldn't believe its good fortune.
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REPORTS & SURVEYS
~ Shift To Single Currency to Drive ECommerce in Europe Implementation of the
single European currency, the euro, will boost the uptake of Internet
commerce in Europe, according to new research from IT industry analysis
company Gartner Group.
~ Microsoft's 4-Way ECommerce Invasion You know about ecommerce. How big it
is. How much bigger it will be soon. Don't believe me? Annette recently
reported that ecommerce will become a trillion- dollar industry by 2000
~ Waiting to Fast-Forward
It may be five years before consumers see decent Webcasts or download entire
CDs off the Net, but that isn't stopping the music industry, nor musicians,
from dreaming.
~ The Net's Not Mainstream, Yet A new report from online business researcher
eMarketer suggests the Internet is becoming an upscale microcosm of America.
~ Let Your Bot Shop Til it Drops
I think I've finally convinced my mother she's got to get online. For the
second year in a row she's run herself ragged shopping for my youngest
daughter's birthday
~ Jupiter Projects Meager $30M in Digital Distribution Revenue, But Advises
Labels to Develop Capability Now
Sales of online music via digital distribution - wherein a consumer purchases
and downloads music directly from the Web - will only reach US$30 million, or
2.2 percent, of total online music sales (US$1.4 billion in the US) by 2002,
according to new research released by Jupiter.
~ Book Sites Chase Each Other
The online book battle is beginning to look like the portal wars, with players
constantly trying to one-up each other.
~ Best European High-Tech Manufacturers Spend Less--Not More--On IT IT
intelligence and consulting firm INPUT says that top performing European
high-tech manufacturers spend substantially less on IT than firms which are
not as successful
~ New Study Estimates Cost of Campus Computer Attacks A new study of 30
hacker attacks and other computer problems, conducted by researchers at the
University of Michigan, found the cost of the attacks varied widely,
depending on the incident
~ Internet Shoppers: They'd Rather Go Surfing Shopping is yet to find a place
in the hearts and minds of internet users, with a recent study revealing that
only a fraction of the 5 million Australians who use the net do so to shop.
~ Is Browser War Near End?
Could this be the beginning of the end of the browser war? The answer depends
on whom you ask.
~ Wine Club Expects Internet Sales To Pour In Direct wine marketer
Cellarmasters expects up to 20 per cent of its business to be from online
ordering by the year 2000.
~ Small Businesses Flock to the Net As the Internet becomes a standard
business tool, small U.S. businesses are connecting to it in increasing
numbers and getting a chance to compete against large businesses, according
to a study released this week by International Data Corp.
~ Women Most Active Internet Shoppers: Nikkei Multimedia Survey Among
Japanese users of the Internet, 61.7 percent of women users have completed
Web-based shopping transactions, as compared with 45.5 percent of men,
according to the Sixth Survey of Internet Active Users conducted by Nikkei
Multimedia in May and June.
~ Non-U.S. Sector of Net Users Will Exceed Americans Online by Year 2000 The
number of non-US Internet users, now estimated at 23 million, is increasing
at an average annual rate of 70%, versus a growth rate in the U.S. of only
43% each year. Given these trajectories, the portion of the world outside the
United States will have more net users than in the U.S. by the start of the
new millennium, according to the eOverview Report, released by eMarketer, a
leading authority on business online.
~ Related Story: 60 Million Net Users Worldwide According to a report issued
by online researcher eMarketer, the number of non- US Internet users,
estimated to be around 23 million, is increasing at an average annual rate of
70 percent, contrasting a growth rate in the U.S. of only 43 percent each
year.
~ Geocities' Cyberworld Is Vibrant, But Can It Make Money?
Rick Brown did not set out to be anyone's hero. Simply wanting to learn a
little more about the Internet, he signed on two years ago with Geocities, a
service that gives people free space to publish their own pages on the World
Wide Web.
~ Microsoft Narrows Netscape's Lead
Netscape is still No. 1 in the Web browser market, but just barely. A new
report says the No. 2 browser, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, has pulled to
within seven percentage points during the past six months.
~ Related Story: IE Leads Browser War at Work
Microsoft has grabbed the lead from rival Netscape Communications among
companies that specify which browser their employees should use to access the
Internet, a research company said today.
~ Business-to-Consumer Sites to Spend $552 Million in 1998
ActivMedia Inc. said a new study shows that business-to-consumer Web sites,
driven by the arrival of mainstream consumers, will spend more than half a
billion dollars this year on multimedia attractions, transaction systems
software and other services.
~ China's Internet Explosion
The number of Internet surfers in China jumped to 1.175 million at the end of
June from 505,000 at the beginning of this year, the China Economic Times said
on Monday.
~ Car Referral Services Rev Up Consumer Buying Savvy
About a year and a half ago, my husband and I decided it was time to trade in
our old Toyota and buy another car.
~ Survey Finds Java Use Skyrocketing
Use of Sun Microsystems, Inc.'s Java programming language for Web applications
will skyrocket during the next two years, according to a new survey by
Strategic Focus, Inc.
~ BancAmerica Robertson Stephens to Report on ECommerce Industry BancAmerica
Robertson Stephens research analyst Gary Craft publishes a research report on
the electronic commerce industry.
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CORPORATE & PRODUCT NEWS
~ Ingram Micro Licenses Open Market's Internet Commerce Software
Open Market Inc. said that Ingram Micro Inc., a wholesale distributor of
technology products and services, licensed its Internet commerce software,
Transact.
~ Renovating Online Storefronts
Most PC vendors have enabled their Web sites for electronic commerce, but
perceived security issues and poor site designs have discouraged many buyers
from closing the deal online
~ NTT Says It, Microsoft Agree On Business Tie-Up Nippon Telegraph and
Telephone Corp said on Thursday that it and Microsoft Corp of the United
States had agreed on a broad tie-up in the electronic commerce business.
~ Alpha Eases ECommerce Entry
Setting up an ecommerce Web site may soon be as easy as swinging by CompUSA to
pick up the latest version of Doom.
~ Server Tools Play Key Role In ECommerce
In the online world, life changes fast. Yesterday, you were questioning if the
Web would ever be a moneymaker. Today, you are rethinking your corporate
business model to tap into the Internet's profit engine.
~ IBM, Partners to Offer New ECommerce Solutions IBM at Internet World
announced it has joined with a host of partners to improve advertising,
supply chain management, and other services for its Net.Commerce
Internet-commerce solutions and is also working to improve online payment
options and credit card verification both in North America and with the
European Union.
~ Related Story: Management, ECommerce In One
IMI and IBM want to give a little electronic zap to order management software.
~ Peapod to Upgrade Online Grocery Store Online grocer Peapod Inc. said it
plans a relaunch of its Web site, featuring a new version of its Internet
supermarket.
~ GlobalTech to Sell Actinic Catalog Software
Software reseller GlobalTech Solutions Inc. announced the availability of the
Actinic Catalog e-Commerce Software 2.0 in the United States.
~ Breakthrough Software Announces ShopZone
Breakthrough Software Inc. in released an online store development product
called ShopZone.
~ Harbinger Upgrades TrustedLink EDI/400
ECommerce firm Harbinger Corp. delivered TrustedLink EDI/400 V3.1, the latest
release of the company's software for IBM AS/400 systems.
~ Harbinger Buys Electronic Catalog Tools Business
Harbinger Corp. on Monday continued its acquisition strategy with a $3.5
million buyout of the Materials Management Division of MACTEC Inc
~ America Online Grocery Shops For ECommerce Revenues
America Online will be putting at least US$15 million more in electronic
commerce revenues in its virtual shopping cart, in the wake of a deal signed
with NetGrocer, which will become the exclusive online supermarket
shopping/delivery service on both AOL's proprietary online service and its
AOL.com Web site.
~ Ingram Challenges Dell's Web Sales
Gearing up to battle Dell Computer's direct sales model, distributor giant
Ingram Micro will host ecommerce sites for 200 of its top resellers, giving
them their own branded Web computer stores with "back office" and commercial
services provided by the Santa Ana, California, company.
~ Start-Up Kicks Off Buying Strategy
Trying to capitalize on the mad rush to outfit middle market companies with
business software suites, Salt Lake City start-up SolutionBank is buying up
third party implementation firms to create a national network of value added
resellers.
~ barnesandnoble.com Unveils Business-to-Business Program
barnesandnoble.com launched a new business-to-business ecommerce program,
entitled Business Solutions, designed to make corporate book and periodical
purchasing convenient, controlled, and cost-effective.
~ SAP Takes Prepackaged Route
SAP has a prepackaged version of its business process software for the
prepackaged industry.
~ Fingerhut Acquires PC Flowers, Plans More ECommerce Buys
Fingerhut, a $1.8 billion catalog and direct-marketing company, is planning to
aggressively expand its business to the Web through a series of a acquisitions
~ J. Crew Mounts Big Web Push for Fall '98
This fall, shoppers at J. Crew stores will get a little something extra when
they buy a pair of khakis - a jcrew.com baseball cap.
~ Hyundai To Sell Auto Parts Over The Web Hyundai America said it plans to
use the Web to broaden the distribution of its replacement parts and generate
business for its U.S. auto-franchise dealers
~ Microsoft as Mortgage Meister Microsoft hopes to hit buyers where they live
with the launch of HomeAdvisor, a full-service real estate Web site
~ Impulse! Buy Network Signs New Channel Partners
Impulse! Buy Network Inc. said it has a variety of new channel partners that
will be featuring Impulse! Point-of-Purchase displays on their Web sites.
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FINANCIAL NEWS
~ Microsoft Achieves Earnings Record
Stronger-than-expected sales of the Windows 98 operating system helped boost
Microsoft earnings 26% in the quarter ended June 30, closing out a record
fiscal year for the software company.
~ Profits Still Elude Most Online Retailers
So what's the bottom line for e-tailers? Unfortunately there isn't one. But
Wall Street is patiently waiting.
~ Venture Capitalists Seeking Internet Investments
As average investorsbuy stock in big-name Internet companies like Yahoo! Inc.
and Amazon.com Inc., well-heeled corporatebackers are pouring money into what
they hope will be theonline success stories of tomorrow.
~ First Virtual Announces Agreement to Acquire Email Publishing, Inc.
First Virtual Holdings Inc. announced that it has entered into a nonbinding
letter of intent with Email Publishing Inc. to acquire 100% of the outstanding
stock of EMP.
~ Secure Online Municipal Bond Trading for Independent Investors
TaxFreeBond.com specializes in providing for the needs of the municipal bond
investor
~ Wall Street Tests Y2K Systems
Wall Street's major exchanges and brokerages began the biggest test yet of how
well their computers would handle the transition to the year 2000, the
Associated Press reported.
~ Etrade Brokers Its Own Deal In its short history as on online brokerage,
Etrade has handled millions of hot stock deals for its customers. On Friday,
it made a hot one for itself.
~ ETrade Makes Financial Portal Play
ETrade Group Inc. this summer is rolling out a site designed as a financial
"portal" onto the Internet, vying against such well-known names as Yahoo!
Finance and Quicken.com in the quest for financially oriented eyeballs.
~ Enhanced Services to Acquire eCommerce Corp.
Enhanced Services Company Inc. in El Segundo, CA said it has agreed to buy
eCommerce Corp. in Stamford, CT for an unspecified combination of cash and
stock.
~ CoolChat Added to Growing List of Zapata Acquisitions
Zapata Corp. closed out a busy week with the announcement today that its ZAP
Corp. Internet subsidiary signed an agreement to acquire CoolChat, Inc., a Web
community that boasts 300,000 members.
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ELECTRONIC TRANSACTION & BANKING NEWS
~ In Fantasy Game, Real Cash for Virtual Cards
In the history of paper, playing cards predate the widespread use of printed
currency
~ Commerce One Delivers BuySite 3.1 Electronic Procurement App
Commerce One Inc., a provider of Web-based electronic procurement solutions
that link buying and selling organizations in real-time trading communities,
delivered its BuySite 3.1 Electronic Procurement Application.
~ Fujitsu Offers Cashless ATM
Fujitsu said that it had introduced a cashless automatic teller machine (ATM)
and an electronic wallet.
~ Electronic Check for Big B-to-B Transactions Passes Test The U.S.
Department of the Treasury, IBM, and a few partners have announced the
successful test of an email-based electronic check system to pay an invoice.
~ CyberCash Cuts Staff; Is Sale Next Step?
CyberCash has trimmed its U.S. workforce by about 20 percent as its executives
insist that the company's star is on the rise.
~ Travelocity Offers Shop Safe Guarantee for Online Transactions
The SABRE Group said that its online travel center Travelocity introduced Shop
Safe Guarantee, an added insurance policy against unauthorized credit card
usage.
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MARKETING NEWS
~ MBA 604: Marketing through New Media
Douglas Anderson and Bruce Bailey of Madaille College, Buffalo, NY, liken
marketing firms to the flesh of an orange, macroeconomic forces to an orange
peel, and the process of marketing research as "peeling the orange" in this
beautifully executed educational site designed to heighten student use of the
web
~ Service Gives Web Site Feedback
Is your Web site telling people what you want them to hear? A new service
launched today will tell you just that, or at least have a group of paid
Internet users tell you.
~ Web Ads Part of Brand Strategy
Advertising on the Web will not work if it is detached from conventional
marketing campaigns, the head of the new digital unit of advertising agency
Ammirati Puris Lintas said today.
~ Australian Online Advertising On the Rise
Internet advertising on Australian Web sites is on target to triple this year,
according to the preliminary results of two research groups.
~ Related News: Australian Internet Advertising Revenue Reaches $1M a Month
Australian Internet advertising may have just had its first million-dollar
month, according to the latest study from research firm www.consult.
~ Click Here for Free Stock
Sure, you've heard of Web companies handing out frequent flier miles or
CyberCash to surfers who visit their sites
~ You've Got Mail... and Pasta and Cereal
Signing your name at the bottom of an America Online Inc. contract seems to be
the ticket to fame and fortune these days. Fork over the money, and your
business is instantly accessible by 11 million customers.
~ Alliance Extends Reach of Canadian Advertisers
ClickThrough Interactive is teaming up with New York-based 24/7 Media and its
network of popular American Web sites.
~ Luck-e-lotto Bets On The Net
Australia's first officially accredited online lottery agent is preparing a
major marketing campaign after six months of successful operations with world-
leading automated payment systems.
~ Designing Sites for Commerce: There's No Shortcut
Good design has always been a cherished value at ecommerce hosting company
Viaweb. But it's more than vanity, said founder Paul Graham, who, in addition
to holding a doctorate in computer science from Harvard, has formally trained
as a painter. Site design can make or break an Internet business.
~ In Defense of Net Advertising
Hours after learning that advertising dollars will not sustain the Internet
media companies that depend on them, attendees at summer Internet World here
heard a spirited defense of advertising on the Web.
~ Ad-Driven Net Firms in Danger If their Wall Street valuations are any
indication, advertising-supported media companies are ruling the Internet
roost these days. But the nature of Internet advertising may cause a
precipitous fall for these firms, attendees here at Internet World learned
today.
~ @Home Offers Peek Into Future Of High-Bandwidth
Advertising
If you want a glimpse into the future of Web ads, you'd be wise to find a way
to check out @Home's Internet-over-cable service.
~ New Software Allows for Advertising on the Cursor
First came banner ads at the top of Web pages. Then interstitial ads between
pages. Now Comet Systems is offering a way to turn the cursor--that dull but
functional arrow--into a promotional tool.
~ Web Ratings Spat Highlights Conflicts Late last month DoubleClick, a firm
that sells advertising for Web sites, announced that Web rating company Media
Metrix had ranked DoubleClick's total number of Web viewers as the third
highest on the Web - just behind Yahoo and America Online. DoubleClick's
stock price jumped nearly 30 percent on the news.
~ David Bowie Plunges Into Online Branding
Rocker David Bowie continues to demonstrate prowess for extending his name
beyond albums
~ Tapping a Market Driven by Mania Steve Milo has a lot in common with many
of the young entrepreneurs who started Internet businesses. One key
difference is that he didn't see much business potential in the Internet.
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ENCRYPTION, SECURITY & PRIVACY NEWS
~ Microsoft Warns of Potential Web Server Risk Microsoft has posted a memo
warning its customers that unauthorized access of its SQL Server relational
database could be gained from the Internet through its Internet Information
Server 4.0 Web server, if the customer does not have a sound security policy
in place.
~ Group Cracks Crypto Standard
The current 56-bit Data Encryption Standard is not as secure as believed, the
Electronic Frontier Foundation revealed in an attempt to raise the ante in the
political standoff with U.S. government officials trying to limit the strength
of encryption approved for export.
~ HP Launches Security Solutions Program
Hewlett-Packard Co. launched an Internet-security solutions operation called
the Praesidium partner program, designed to protect electronic-business
applications for new and existing customers.
~ Security hole found in Navigator
Just in the nick of time for its Communicator 4.5 beta release, Netscape
Communications has moved to fix a serious security hole that affects certain
versions of its Web browser.
~ Microsoft Warns of Security Hole Microsoft has issued a warning to
developers that a data access component included with its Web server and
development tools could be used to gain unauthorized access to corporate
databases, and could potentially crash Windows NT-based servers.
~ Privacy Advocates Snub 'Operator-Action' Encryption Plan Privacy advocates
have snubbed an industry plan announced Monday for router- based encryption
that could be decoded by network operators for law enforcers' investigations
of crimes, which Cisco Systems promoted as an alternative to the government
mandated key recovery system.
~ Net Companies Close To New Privacy Proposal
Internet companies scrambling to develop a privacy self-regulation scheme are
close to finishing a new proposal they hope will ward off government
regulation, sources close to the effort said Tuesday.
~ Encryption Plan Lets United States Compete
An encryption proposal unveiled Monday represents the industry's "best
thinking" and best chance to continue competing in the global market, the 13
technology companies supporting the effort said.
~ Military On Offensive Against Hackers The Army is setting up SWAT teams to
battle computer hackers, who have made the military a favorite target.
~ Related News: DOD Preps Office For Cyberdefense The Defense Department
plans to create a new military organization to spearhead DOD's effort to
protect the nation's critical computer systems against information warfare
attacks, marking the first time DOD has taken responsibility for protecting
infrastructure within the United States.
~ An Embattled Encryption Standard Gets A Shot In The Arm
Let me state my position from the outset: Being under the auspices of the
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) will give Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), a
de facto standard for Web security, a much-needed boost.
~ Probing Your Vulnerabilities
Another day of teenage angst. Shall we torch a bag of dog poop on Mrs.
Flaherty's doorstep or drill a political nerve by hacking secured weapons
research data in Pakistan and India
~ Stamping Out Fraud
Postal Service will use certificates to curb meter malfeasance
The U.S. Postal Service is dipping a toe into the Internet security pool by
applying digital certificate technologies to machines instead of users.
~ Thirteen Companies Support 'Private Doorbell' Encryption Alternative
Thirteen IT companies are backing encryption technology allowing a network
operator to access private information at the behest of law enforcement
agencies - an alternative to the controversial key recovery method and a way
that the firms contend will break the deadlock over network encryption.
~ Related News: Cisco Leads Industry Encryption Plan Thirteen technology
companies led by Cisco threw their weight behind an alternative to key
recovery of scrambled data on Monday, in an effort to unlock the encryption
stalemate.
~ Feds Push Digital-Certificate Scheme
Imagine transacting business with a federal government agency without standing
in line, filling out a paper form, sitting on the phone, or waiting for the
mail.
~ FBI Sweet on Crypto Proposal
An new proposal by a computer networking industry group aims to break a long-
standing logjam with the Clinton administration over data-scrambling
technologies
~ Sprint Guarantees Firewall Services
In a move to sweeten its Internet Protocol services, Sprint rolled out online
security performance guarantees for its suite of managed firewall offerings.
~ Bug Moves Through the Net, EMail
Shortly after Windows 98's debut last month, reports began circulating about
new strains of a Windows 9x virus, first discovered "in the wild" in Taiwan,
that wipes out hard drives.
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GOVERNMENT, LEGAL & EC INDUSTRY NEWS
~ Data Security Debate Warms
New laws on privacy and ecommerce for Victoria look set to spark a heated
debate, after more than 650 copies of draft papers walked out the door in a
single week.
~ Related Resource: Data Protection and Electronic Signature Legislation
Discussion Papers Now Available
~ Internet Firms Plan Code of Conduct
Europe's leading Internet service providers will meet in Brussels next week to
launch a coalition that will promote industry codes of conduct, a senior
executive at AOL Bertelsmann Online said on Tuesday.
~ CommerceNet Buys Into XML
A consortium of technology companies is betting on XML to help pave the way
toward the next generation of electronic commerce applications.
~ W3C Proposes HTTP Overhaul
In an attempt to simplify and speed the flow of information over the Web, the
World Wide Web Consortium proposed an overhaul of the current hypertext
transfer protocol, or HTTP.
~ N.Y. Freezes Net Gambling Firm
Continuing his high-profile fight against illegal Net activity, New York state
attorney general Dennis Vacco has frozen the bank accounts of an Internet
gambling company, alleging it conducted illegal and deceptive business
practices.
~ Insurance Firm To Cover ECommerce Liabilities
An Atlanta-based insurance company is daring to go where others have feared to
tread, by offering insurance against hacker attacks to companies involved in
electronic commerce.
~ Company Goes After Net Critics
Canada's beleaguered Philip Services Corp. has again stirred controversy after
moving to force America Online Inc. and other Internet service providers to
release the names of people who criticize it on the Internet.
~ Related News: Yahoo Yanks Investor Gossip
Canadian Internet users who thought they could safely post their opinions on
the Web received a wake-up call Friday.
~ Related News: ISPs Ordered To Reveal User Names Internet service providers
including America Online, CompuServe, and PSINet have been served with court
orders that could force them to reveal the names of members who posted
messages online that allegedly disparaged Canadian waste recycling firm
Philip Services Corporation.
~ Syria Opens, A Little, To The Internet
The Internet has finally arrived in Damascus, but don't expect to be swapping
casual email messages with Syrians in the foreseeable future.
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ETCETERA
~ Netscape Posts Browser Preview It's Communicator 4.5, and it's more than a
browser. It's a front end for a Web site.
~ Internet2 Put to the Test
IBM, Northwestern University, Ameritech, and Cisco are establishing a new
research center to test advanced Internet applications on the Northwestern
campus in Evanston, Illinois.
~ Preview Travel in Online Booking Deals
Preview Travel, Inc. announced that it secured strategic partnerships with
American Airlines Vacations and Royal Caribbean International to offer real-
time booking of vacation packages and cruises.
~ Real Estate The Next Big Portal Thing?
Following moves by market leaders Yahoo and Excite, big virtual properties on
the Net such as America Online and Microsoft are hoping to cash in on the
lucrative business of selling real properties in the physical world.
~ CMP Media Cuts 85 Jobs
Tech trade publisher CMP Media, facing declining advertising revenue, today
said it cut 50 jobs and will not fill 35 vacant positions. The company said no
further layoffs are expected.
~ The Buzz
Top headlines and analysis of the past two weeks.
~ Ford's revved up Website wins a Cyber Lion
The evolution of the Ford Internet site from an electronic brochure to a
purchasing tool has won it an inaugural Cannes Cyber Lion.
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